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A new issue of International Journal of Early Childhood has recently been published, and it contains two articles that focus on mathematics. The first article, " Mathematically-Relevant Input During Play of a Caregiver With a Visual Impairment and Her Toddler ", was written by Joanne Lee, Donna Kotsopoulos and Caryl-Anne Stordy. It has the following abstract: This research investigated play between two caregivers, one with a visual impairment, and their 15-month-old daughter. The mother has a visual impairment. We aimed to identify the similarities and differences in mathematically-relevant input by comparing the 30-min naturalistic play session conducted separately between the mother–daughter and the father–daughter dyad. The mother in this research participated in two 5-week community-based early numeracy sessions with her daughter. Results revealed that the toddler engaged in more joint attention with her father who also produced more mathematically-relevant utterances t...

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association is history, and I enjoyed it a lot! The conference started off Friday morning, April 13, with a number of interesting sessions. In the afternoon, the opening plenary lecture by Professor Linda T. Smith marked the official opening of the conference. In this session, a particular focus on indigineous education was made. To me, this represented a fairly new and very interesting set of perspectives. A refreshing start of such a huge conference! I am not going to present a full overview of all the sessions I attended, because there is simply far too much to say about that! Instead, I will share some of my favourite moments from the conference. I attended quite a few sessions from SIG-Research in Mathematics Education. I particularly enjoyed the one on " Mathematical Teachers' Beliefs and Knowledge ". The presentation by Cindy Jong –where she told us about the MECS instrument–was of particular interest to...

The annual meeting of the  American Educational Research Association (AERA)  is coming up this week, and I am looking forward to attending this year's meeting! Last (and only!) time I attended the AERA conference was in 2009 in San Diego. This year, the conference is held in Vancouver (Canada), and I am looking forward to a great conference. I am presenting a paper in a symposium session this year. Our symposium session is entitled:  Defining and Measuring What Math and Science Teachers Need to Know: Implications for Professional Development  and will take place on Sunday morning (April 15), so if you are in Vancouver it would have been nice to see you there :-) Our symposium session is chaired by Professor Elaine Munthe (also from the University of Stavanger ). The discussant in our session is  Professor Hilda Borko (Stanford). If interested, you can read our paper below: [googleapps domain="docs" dir="viewer" query="authuser=0&srcid=0Bz2cnF3RVf4YdUdk...

Professor Bharath Sriraman has just finished editing an exciting new book that is about to be published by Information Age Publishing. This new book is entitled "The First Asian Sourcebook in Mathematics Education: China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, and India. Below is the cover and table of contents to give you an exclusive first taste of the book! [scribd id=80807392 key=key-1ju0w8coybk6vzguiz1m mode=list]

Being a researcher in mathematics education (or in any field, I guess) involves a lot of hard work. Some parts of that work are more enjoyable than others, and everyone has their own favorite part. Me, I love to write! Working with text, whether it is a scientific article, a conference paper, book chapter or even a blogpost like this; that's the part of my work I love the most! That doesn't imply, however, that writing is easy, or that I know all there is to know about it. Far from it! I keep learning, and sometimes I discover resources that are more useful than others. Recently, I have been using the Springer Author Academy quite a lot, and I think it is a great resource for me as a scientific writer! It contains lots of useful information and tips about all aspects of the writing process, from even before the first draft to the final part of the peer review process. Actually, I am working on a conference paper for the 2012 PME-NA conference right now, and some of the tips f...

My colleague Yaa Cole  has written an article about her project on adapting and using the MKT instrument in Ghana. This article will appear in a forthcoming special issue in ZDM , and it has now been published online. The title of the article is: " Assessing elemental validity: the transfer and use of mathematical knowledge for teaching measures in Ghana ". The articles which are going to appear in the MKT section of the forthcoming special issue have now started to be published, and Dicky Ng's article " Using the MKT measures to reveal Indonesian teachers' mathematical knowledge: challenges and potentials " has also been published online. More articles are coming :-) Below is a preview of Yaa's article (click to see a larger version!):

This blog is now a little less than four years old. Admittedly, I was much more active in the early phase of the blog's history than I am now, but there has still been quite a lot of activity here over the last four years. For quite some time now I have been wondering about how much I have actually written on this blog. I mean, how many pages would it be if I put everything together? I just created an ebook of the entire archive to check it out, and below is the result :-) [scribd id=75041408 key=key-smx78z2qcgnofxvva5y mode=list]